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UK-Israel healthcare link set to boost NHS
Cash-strapped hospitals to benefit from country’s latest tech A new initiative to link the NHS with the latest Israeli health technology will be “the best thing we’ll do all year,” according to Britain’s ambassador to Israel, writes Stephen Oryszczuk. The ambitious plan is being sponsored by a British-Jewish philanthropist who says he wants the two countries to head into the new healthcare revolution “hand-in-hand”. David Dangoor, the businessman son of Sir Naim Dangoor, told Jewish News this week that the new business accelerator would aim to match Israeli innovation in digital health with Britain’s cash-strapped NHS. The idea is to identify which Israeli health technology companies could most
help the NHS then fast-track their development, with mentoring from IT giant IBM and paid-for visits to the UK. The UK Israel Dangoor Health Initiative will be launched in Israel at the official residence of the British Ambassador David Quarrey, together with the UK Israel Tech Hub, part of the British Embassy in Tel Aviv. David Quarrey, UK Ambassador to Israel, told Jewish News: “This has the potential to bring together the scale and the strengths of the NHS with the innovation of the Israeli tech scene. It is one of the most important things we will do in 2018 and should build a strong partnership paving the way to better healthcare for the benefit of all”.
Backers say the aim is “to create a pipeline of Israeli digital health innovation into the NHS” by picking two or three of Israel’s best early stage digital health start-ups and giving them the tools to work with the UK”. A decade ago, Dangoor sponsored a conference on renewable energy, bringing experts from Imperial College and the Weizmann Institute together. That expanded into health, first sponsoring the Anglo-Israel Cardiology Symposium, where top cardiologists from the UK and Israel travel to each other’s home countries to share learning, then sponsoring the British and Israeli Societies of Euro Gynaecology, which had their first meeting in London in November.
In September, former Prime Minister Tony Blair opened in his father’s name the Centre for UK-Israel Relations in Mishkenot Sha’ananim in Jerusalem in buildings built by Sir Moses Montefiore in 1860, the first settlement of the New Yishuv. “Montefiore was the inspiration for this UK-Israel theme that I’ve been following, because he was very much a person who made a lot of connections between the UK and Israel at a completely different time,” says Dangoor. “He would have been thrilled if he’d had the chance to do it today. We are privileged to live in a time when we can do this, with an actual Israeli society.” Continued on page 5